We watch TV so you don't have to. But you should. You really should.

Today’s television viewers – particularly millennials digesting their favorite shows 10 episodes at a time on their phones – likely don’t remember or even know of the eight nights in 1977 when more than 100 million Americans gathered in front of their TV sets for “Roots.” The pioneering television event series, an adaptation of Alex Haley’s novel, broke viewership records and became a cultural landmark for its unflinching depiction of slavery, told through the eyes of three generations of African-Americans… Read More »